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title: Old Iktomi led his young Iktomi brood to the place where he had left… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Old Iktomi led his young Iktomi brood to the place where he had left the turtle, but it was vacant. Who acts: Old Iktomi, Iktomi, turtle. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Turtle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 44

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Old Iktomi led his young Iktomi brood to the place where he had left the turtle, but it was vacant.

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**Who acts:** Old Iktomi, Iktomi, turtle · **What happens:** lead, leave, be · **To what, where:** young Iktomi brood, place, turtle

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Turtle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old Iktomi, Iktomi, turtle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:10:44
# text = Old Iktomi led his young Iktomi brood to the place where he had left the turtle, but it was vacant.
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	brood	brood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	vacant	vacant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | Old Iktomi | Iktomi's young Iktomi brood |  | the place |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brood=Theme to place=Destination |
| 2 | **leave** | past · perfect | Iktomi | the turtle |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turtle=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | turtle |  |  |  |  | vacant *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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